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DeQuinzio, Jaime A.; Taylor, Bridget A.; Tomasi, Brittany J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
We extended past observational learning research by incorporating stimuli already known to participants into training. We used a multiple-baseline design across three participants to determine the effects of discrimination training on the discrimination of consequences applied to modeled responses using both known and unknown pictures. During…
Descriptors: Autism, Observation, Pictorial Stimuli, Imitation
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Kodak, Tiffany; Clements, Andrea; Paden, Amber R.; LeBlanc, Brittany; Mintz, Joslyn; Toussaint, Karen A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2015
The current investigation evaluated repertoires that may be related to performance on auditory-to-visual conditional discrimination training with 9 students who had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The skills included in the assessment were matching, imitation, scanning, an auditory discrimination, and a visual discrimination. The…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Auditory Discrimination
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Viel, Jonathan; Wightman, Jade; Marion, Carole; Jeanson, Brigitte; Martin, Garry; Yu, Dickie; Verbeke, Aynsley – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) was developed to assess the ease or difficulty with which individuals with intellectual disabilities are able to learn an imitation task and five 2-choice discriminations, called levels. Level 6 is an auditory-visual discrimination. We examined whether children with autism who passed ABLA Level 6…
Descriptors: Autism, Imitation, Visual Discrimination, Auditory Discrimination
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Martin, Garry L.; Yu, C. T. – Behavior Analyst, 2010
In a recent article published in "The Behavior Analyst," Stewart, McElwee, and Ming (2010) suggested that "scientific experts in scientific contexts" should use more "technically accurate and precise labeling" when describing the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) in published articles. They concluded by stating, "We believe that…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Accuracy, Classification, Developmental Disabilities
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Soussignan, Robert; Courtial, Alexis; Canet, Pierre; Danon-Apter, Gisele; Nadel, Jacqueline – Developmental Science, 2011
No evidence had been provided so far of newborns' capacity to give a matching response to 2D stimuli. We report evidence from 18 newborns who were presented with three types of stimuli on a 2D screen. The stimuli were video-recorded displays of tongue protrusion shown by: (a) a human face, (b) a human tongue from a disembodied mouth, and (c) an…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Neonates
Cummings, Anne R.; Carr, James E. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
We evaluated the influence of two different frequencies of data collection on skill acquisition and maintenance within behavioral treatment programs for children with autism spectrum disorders. Six children were taught multiple skills in up to four different behavioral programs. Half of the skills were measured continuously (i.e., trial by trial),…
Descriptors: Maintenance, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children
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Murphy, Colleen; Figueroa, Maria; Martin, Garry L.; Yu, C. T.; Figueroa, Josue – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2008
Many everyday matching tasks taught to persons with developmental disabilities are visual-visual non-identity matching (VVNM) tasks, such as matching the printed word DOG to a picture of a dog, or matching a sock to a shoe. Research has shown that, for participants who have failed a VVNM prototype task, it is very difficult to teach them various…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Visual Stimuli, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
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Wilcox, Barbara; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Two experiments investigated characteristic generalized imitation procedures on a nonimitative successive visual discrimination task. (Editor)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Identification (Psychology), Imitation, Preschool Children
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Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1988
Investigates ability of nine-month-old infants to imitate simple actions with novel objects. Looks at both immediate and deferred imitation. Findings show that imitation in early infancy can span wide enough delays to be of potential service in social development. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Imitation, Infant Behavior
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Myowa-Yamakoshi, Masako; Tomonaga, Masaki; Tanaka, Masayuki; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro – Developmental Science, 2004
This paper provides evidence for imitative abilities in neonatal chimpanzees ("Pan troglodytes"), our closest relatives. Two chimpanzees were reared from birth by their biological mothers. At less than 7 days of age the chimpanzees could discriminate between, and imitate, human facial gestures (tongue protrusion and mouth opening). By the time…
Descriptors: Imitation, Infant Behavior, Animals, Neonates